Genetic Evaluation for Herd Life in Canada

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 550-562

  Jairath, L ^a   Dekkers, J C M ^a,b   Schaeffer, L R ^a   Liu, Z ^a,c   Burnside, E B ^a,d   Kolstad, B ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CANADIAN DAIRY NETWORK   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Animal Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conformation; Genetic evaluation; Herd life

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; CANADA; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; LACTATION; MALE;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CANADA; CATTLE; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031990009     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(98)75607-3     Document Type: Article

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